At the height of his fame, Marcel Pagnol was commissioned by the editor-in-chief of a major women's magazine to write a literary serial, in which he would recount his childhood, his Provence, his first loves...
As he writes the first few pages, the child he once was, little Marcel, suddenly appears to him. His memories come flooding back: the arrival of talking pictures, the first big film studio, his attachment to actors, the experience of writing. The greatest storyteller of all time becomes the hero of his own story.
